Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spout was on. "Don't call me Cassius Clay. I am Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the whole world." But for once, whatever-his-name-is conceded his limitations. "The Army's the boss," he said sagely after hearing that careful double-checking had confirmed he was not intelligent enough to be drafted. Still, now that there was no prospect of his becoming Private Ali, canny Cassius must have been secretly crowing: "I am the dumbest...
...budget down under $100 billion." explains Chairman Henry Clay -Alexander of Morgan Guaranty Trust. "Getting the tax bill passed created a favorable impression." The whole mood of business has bettered considerably since January. "Confidence in the business outlook is stronger than at any time in the past four years," said the Morgan Guaranty's monthly letter...
Johnson has adopted the very same surrender tactics that proved such a disaster for his predecessor last year. When Kennedy accepted the recommendations of the Clay Committee last spring and reduced his own earlier request by $400 million he was met not with Congressional approval but with an additional $1.5 billion in cuts. Slashing the foreign aid budget had become a useful game, and Congress was not going to allow the the President to steal all its best plays. The same thing will no doubt happen this year...
...Lassman can subscribe to any of these views, but he has no right to ban Cassius Marcellus Clay, or Cassius "Muhammed Ali" Clay from boxing for expounding the glory of Islam...
...make of boxing. Cus D'Amato tried for years to avoid a Liston-Patterson fight, but so long as Liston was kept twiddling his thumbs at the top of the contenders' ladder, a few of us were willing to accept Floyd as the best heavyweight around. With Cassius Clay exiled from the boxing world no one will recognize Doug Jones or Ernie Terrell as a legitimate champion. Much as Lassman might wish that only nice Baptist boys from healthy middle class homes would take up boxing, that just is not the case. It just is not boxing